To start, the new cabins are being introduced on the airline's Boeing 777 wide-body jets.
The previous FAA grounding in 1979 followed the terrible crash of the now-defunct DC-10 wide-body airliner.
Emirates also ordered 20 wide-body A340 planes -- two A340-500 and 18 A340-600 planes.
With 866 aircraft on order, the 787 Dreamliner became the fastest-selling wide-body jet in history.
Groh deems BE Aerospace a winner, given his bullish view on demand for wide-body aircraft.
Boeing also said on Monday it had won an order for 26 of its wide-body 777-300ER jets.
Emirates Airlines says it plans to test satellite based internet service on its A380 double-deck, wide-body jets.
The wide-body, twin-engine jet relies on a complex network of electrical systems rather than traditional pneumatic systems.
The wide-body freighter would be much more likely to make a trip from, say Los Angeles to Louisville, Ky.
Bad weather forced the wide-body Boeing 767-400 to sit several hours in a JFK conga-line of jets waiting to takeoff.
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"Our plan is to continue production of the 787 and to continue the development of the wide-body airplanes, " he added.
Joseph Burns, managing director for flight standards and technology at United Airlines, which has texting capabilities on most of its wide-body fleet.
The A380 is a four-engined, twin-decked, wide-body jet aircraft built at Airbus's factories throughout Europe and assembled at its facility in Toulouse, France.
In part, that is because it is impractical to distribute a full plane's worth of tablets on wide-body jets with hundreds of passengers, they say.
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China Eastern will also return five Airbus A340-300s to in exchange for 15 smaller wide-body A330s, which could be operated on domestic routes, Bloomberg reported.
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Hence the decision to buy smaller wide-body jets for long-haul routes.
China is one of Airbus' most important customers, particularly for narrow-body planes, while the Middle East flies the flag for Airbus' wide-body jets like the double-decker A380.
Then Boeing, which had for decades relied on Rockwell to build its avionics, picked Honeywell to outfit its new wide-body 777 and 737 jetliners with integrated systems on LCDs.
But once the FAA in the early 1990s granted airline operators permission to use it on over-water routes, carriers including American, Northwest, US Airways and Continental found the 757 a fuel-effective way to serve cities in Western Europe that had previously been reached with larger, more costly wide-body planes that consume more fuel but have greater range.
On Tuesday, a senior aviation analyst told Forbes.com that the Airbus A350, an XWB (extra-wide body) aircraft, could be delayed until 2014.
Additional concerns are raised over the lack of an industry-wide regulatory body to demand transparency, monitor abusive loan practices, and ensure that financial education of financial products is in place.
Martyrs To The Cause Supporters' Trust secretary John Strand says his five-year-old association, which is affiliated to the UK-wide Supporters' Direct body, have offered to take over the debts and running of the three-time Welsh Cup winners.
As of December 31, 2011, it had a fleet of 102 aircraft comprising 81 single- aisle jet aircraft, 19 twin-aisle wide body aircraft, and 2 turboprop aircraft.
Meanwhile, as Boeing scrambles to find a quick fix and keep its customers happy, one of its biggest competitors is working to make sure its own planes are kept in the air: A spokesman for Airbus, which uses similar lithium-ion batteries in its A350 wide body jet, told the Reuters news service that the company is considering dropping Lithium-ion batteries and switching back to traditional nickel-cadmium power units.
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Thus, since the military would no longer require any new C-17s, the one active American manufacturing line that is capable of building wide body military transport plane would be allowed to go dormant - possibly forever.
The birth of the first child who began life as an embryo outside the human body made headlines world-wide and ultimately spawned hundreds of commercial IVF clinics.
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The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, a 97-year-old nonprofit body that issues a seal of approval to business and accounting programs world-wide, says it needs the flexibility to support a growing group of programs from around the world.
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